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“Education Before Regulation: Empowering Students to Question Their Data Privacy”
From an EDUCAUSE Review Article By Autumm Caines And Erin Glass: We must work not only toward providing better security around student data but also toward educating students about the need to critically evaluate how their data is used and how to participate in shaping data privacy practices and policies. These policies and practices will affect them […]
Report: “Crawl Data Analysis of 2 Billion Links From 90 Million Domains Offer Glimpse Into Today’s Web”
From Search Engine Land: To get an overall view of information about the web we need data, lots of data. And we need it on a regular basis. There are some organizations that provide open data for this purpose like Httparchive. It collects and permanently stores the web’s digitized content and offers them as public dataset. […]
Bowker Releases “Self-Publishing in the United States, 2013-2018” Report
From Bowker: According to the latest report from ProQuest affiliate Bowker, self-publishing grew at a rate of 40 percent in 2018 – and shows no signs of slowing down. Bowker’s annual study, “Self-Publishing in the United States, 2013-2018,” highlights self-publishing trends based on the number of ISBNs registered in the Bowker Books In Print® database. [Clip] The combined […]
Association of University Presses (AUPresses) Issues Statement Condemning a Book Burning Incident at Georgia Southern University
Here’s the full text of the statement from AUPresses released today. The international publishing community is gathering this week at the Frankfurt Book Fair—as the book world has done over the course of 500 years. These days, the Buchmesse occurs not many kilometers from a plaque that marks one of the first Nazi book burnings, […]
Roundup (October 15, 2019)
CTW Library Consortium Now Using Evidence-Based Acquisitions Model (via Trinity College Library) Note: CTW Library Consortium consists of Connecticut College, Trinity College, and Wesleyan University. DuckDuckGo Adds Several Search Features Including Date Filter New Feature: Books and Book Chapters on ScienceOpen PeerJ Celebrates Publication of First Peer-Reviewed Articles in Chemistry Scribd Officially Launches New Reading […]
Report: “UF (University of Florida) Reprimands Book-Hungry Prof Over 2017 Behavior”
From Gainesville.com: The University of Florida has thrown the books at English professor Richard Burt. Burt, 65, who contested the university library book check-out limit of 350, was made to sign a written letter of reprimand by his chair, Sid Dobrin, and associate dean, Mary Watt. They met Monday, one day before The Sun published a […]
Amazon Makes Another $1 Million Gift to the Wikimedia Endowment to Help Ensure Long-Term Sustainability of Wikipedia
From the Wikimedia Foundation: We are pleased to announce a new $1 million gift to the Wikimedia Endowment from Amazon to support greater access to information for everyone. This is Amazon’s second gift to the Wikimedia Endowment, a permanent fund dedicated to ensuring the long-term sustainability of Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. […]
Penn. State University: Dean of University Libraries Barbara Dewey to Retire August 2020
From Penn. State University: Penn State has announced that Barbara I. Dewey, Penn State’s dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications, will retire in August 2020 after a 45-year career in librarianship. [Clip] During her tenure as dean, Dewey oversaw the transformation of spaces in the Pattee and Paterno Libraries, including the award-winning Knowledge Commons, […]
Digital Privacy News Roundup
Apple Safari Browser Sends Some User IP Addresses to Chinese Conglomerate Tencent by Default (via Reclaim the Net) “Education Before Regulation: Empowering Students to Question Their Data Privacy” (via EDUCAUSE Review) How to Stop GoogleSoftwareUpdate.app From Trying to Run on Your Mac (via iMore) Your Personal Information’s Worth to Cybercriminals (via Bleeping Computing) Last Updated: […]